G'day,
I thought it did too, but when I tried on a couple of Pup installs, both gave rubbish whereas my full & fresh 2.6.4 XP install read the docx file.
It may be just the plug-in for 2.6.3 I need then?
David S.

I suspect you just need to install the "Abiword plugins" package from petget... it probably just isn't included in the Puppy iso._________________DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS
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I don't know also but my abiword was not working before ..tried here and there...and also found this thread complaining...so I figure I post my experience..that's all......I don't know about your fix, and this is one example of scattered infos and fixes...

I don't know also but my abiword was not working before ..tried here and there...and also found this thread complaining...so I figure I post my experience..that's all......I don't know about your fix, and this is one example of scattered infos and fixes...

should I just delete it then?

I don't know, this is the one in puppies 4.2 v2 and works well, it opens docx files and makes every format that abiword offers, its just a bit older version that I updated with the latest plugins compiled on 4.2.
really there wouldn't be any difference between the latest version and this version other than this version doesn't need TYMES font enabled by default. Which I tried to enable Tymes font as the main system default font, but it looks like its really embedded into puppy.
I even deleted the usr/share/fonts folder and replaced it with tymes fonts and also changed configs in root and in etc/ and still it reverts to the original fonts, Thats why I like this version above I posted, it just works out of the box, no messing around with system defaults for fonts etc.
ttuuxxx_________________http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games

What Im saying Ttuxxx, is that these were the only guys on here who needed the "Upgrade" of Abiword to get the .DocX support, with the result that no one could open almost ALL Word Docs created on Windoze (except devs)....and a whole heap of trouble besides.

If Abiword had been a .pet, that had been compiled, released through .petget, tested, and the bugs ironed out there before it was included in the main Distro, a lot less people would be smarting now.

Same goes for the the CUPS and Seamonkey that was included having just been compiled.

I do understand that there is no warranty/is free/no responsibility on the part of the programmer etc

Just a thought for the future, stop saying there is something wrong with Seamonkey when its running 100% perfect, It displays a security warning because a newer version is out. That is how its designed, its not a flaw, it works perfect. Mozilla designed it that way, to remove a security feature because it displays once and you can tick it so it doesn't display again is wrong,thats up to the user and does not warrant a "flaw", So take that out of your bag of complaints on here. Its bad enough with abiword and Cups, no need to add extras that aren't actually faults, I'm actually very proud of that Seamonkey I put into 4.2, a lot of work, effort, time went into it and also made me put Seamonkey on the same level as Firefox for once, it used to be on the bottom of list of browsers I liked, I hated the GUI,look and overall feel, now its just as good, if not better than a default Firefox install.
ttuuxxx_________________http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games

Since we're complaining about abiword again, I'll mention again that Abiword in 4.x has always tended to not display half the text in a document (at least .doc, I'm not sure about other formats). Around here the fact the version you blame Ttuuxxx for worked even less often than usual isn't even an issue, because it was broken in the first place _________________DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS
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